Australian Peacekeeping Memorial Project

Missions List

The memorial will honour all Australian peacekeepers. This includes those who were deployed by the United Nations Secretariat or by any national government. The memorial will list individually the peace keeping operations, inclusively defined, to which the Australian Government assigned personnel.

The Start / End years listed are those of Australian participation, even though the listed Mission or Operation may have started earlier or finished later than those listed.

The draft list is as follows, but may be incomplete or contain other errors. Anyone who thinks it contains errors or omissions or who wishes to make any other comment on the list is invited to contact us.

Name of Mission / Operation Theatre / Country Start / End
UN Consular Commission Dutch East Indies (Now Indonesia) 1947
UN Good Offices Commission (UNGOC) Dutch East Indies (Now Indonesia) 1947 - 1949
UN Special Committee on the Balkans (UNSCOB) Greece 1947 - 1948
UN Commission for Indonesia (UNCI) Indonesia 1949 - 1951
UN Commission on Korea (UNCOK) Korea 1950
UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) Kashmir 1948 - 1985
UN Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea (UNCURK) Korea 1951 -1952
UN Command Military Armistice Commission (UNCMAC) Korea 1953 - Present
UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) Middle East 1956 - Present
UN Operation in the Congo (ONUC) Congo 1960 - 1961
UN Temporary Executive Authority (UNTEA) West New Guinea 1962 - 1963
UN Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM) Yemen 1963 - 1964
UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) Cyprus 1964 – Present
UN India–Pakistan Observation Mission (UNIPOM) India / Pakistan 1965 – 1966
UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) Israel / Syria 1974 - Present
Second UN Emergency Force II (UNEF II) Sinai 1973 – 1979
UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Lebanon 1978
Commonwealth Monitoring Force (CMF) Zimbabwe 1979 – 1980
Commonwealth Military Training Team – Uganda (CMTTU) Uganda 1982 – 1984
Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) Sinai 1982 – 1986
1993 – Present
UN Iran – Iraq Military Observer Group (UNIIMOG) Iran / Iraq 1988 – 1990
UN Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) Namibia 1989 – 1990
UN Border Relief Operation (UNBRO) Thai / Cambodian border 1989 – 1993
UN Mine Clearance Training Team (UNMCTT) Afghanistan / Pakistan 1989 – 1993
First Maritime Interception Force (MIF I) Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Red Sea 1990 – 1991
Multinational Forces in Iraq-Kuwait (MNF (I-K)) Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iraq, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Red Sea 1991
Second Maritime Interception Force (MIF II) Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Red Sea 1991 - 2003
UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) Iraq 1991 – 1999
UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) Western Sahara 1991 – 1994
UN Advance Mission in Cambodia (UNAMIC) Cambodia 1991 – 1992
UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) Cambodia 1992 – 1993
First UN Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM I) Somalia 1992 – 1993
Unified Task Force (UNITAF) Somalia 1992 – 1993
UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) Former Yugoslavia 1992
Second UN Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM II) Somalia 1993 - 1995
Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) Cambodia 1992 - 1999
UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) Rwanda 1994 - 1996
UN Operation in Mozambique (ONUMOZ) Mozambique 1994
South Pacific Peace–Keeping Force (SPPKF) Bougainville 1994
Multinational Force (MNF) Haiti 1994 - 1996
UN Accelerated Demining Program Mozambique 1994 - 2002
United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA) Guatemala 1994
Stabilisation Force (SFOR) Former Yugoslavia 1997
Truce Monitoring Group (TMG) Bougainville 1997 - 1998
Peace Monitoring Group (PMG) Bougainville 1998 - 2003
UN Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) East Timor 1999
International Force East Timor (INTERFET) East Timor 1999 - 2000
UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) East Timor 2000 - 2002
International Peace Monitoring Team (IPMT) Solomon Islands 2000 - 2002
UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Ethiopia / Eritrea 2000 - 2005
International Military Advisory and Training Team (IMATT) Sierra Leone 2001 - 2003
UN Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) East Timor 2002 - 2005
UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission for Iraq (UNMOVIC) Iraq 2002 - 2003
UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Afghanistan 2003 - 2004
Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) Solomon Islands 2003 - Present
UN Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) Sudan 2005 - Present
UN Mission in Afghanistan Afghanistan 2005 - Present
UN Office in Timor Leste (UNOTIL) Timor Leste 2005 - 2006
International security forces (ISF) Timor Leste 2006 - Present
UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) Timor Leste 2006 - Present
UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Iraq 2009 - Ongoing